Title The idea of modern Jewish culture / Eliezer Schweid ; translated by Amnon Hadary ; edited by Leonard Levin.

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Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2008.

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 296 pages).
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Series	The reference library of Jewish intellectual history
	Reference library of Jewish intellectual history.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-268) and index.
Contents	Culture as a concept and culture as an ideal -- Tensions and contradiction -- Internalizing the cultural ideal -- The underlying philosophy of Jewish enlightenment -- The meaning of being a Jewish-Hebrew maskil -- Crossroads: the transition from haskalah to the science of Judaism -- The dialectic between national Hebrew culture and Jewish idealistic humanism -- The philosophic historic formation of Jewish humanism: a modern guide to the perplexed -- The science of Judaism : research in Judaism as a culture -- The science of Judaism, Reform Judaism, and historical positivism -- A critique of the science of Judaism and the cultural ideal of the enlightenment -- Accelerated change and revolution -- The vision of Jewish cultural renaissance in political Zionism -- The pioneering (ḥalutzic) culture of the Jewish labor movement in Palestine -- Polar views on sources of Jewish culture -- Alienation from religion and tradition -- The Jewish folk culture of Eretz Israel -- Judaism as the totality of a national historic culture -- Sanctity and the Jewish national movement -- The dimension of sanctity in pioneering Labor Zionism -- Orthodox Zionist culture: sanctifying modernity -- Judaism as a culture in the diaspora -- The secular Jewish culture of Yiddish -- The transition from the Hebrew culture of pre-state Eretz Israel to Israeli culture.
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Subject	Jews -- Intellectual life.
	Jews -- Intellectual life.
	Jews -- Identity.
	Jews -- Identity.
	Judaism -- 20th century.
	Judaism.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Zionism -- Philosophy.
	Zionism -- Philosophy.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Added Author	Hadari, Amnon.
	Levin, Leonard, 1946-
Added Title	Liḳrat tarbut Yehudit modernit. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008026800
Other Form:	Print version: Schweid, Eliezer. Liḳrat tarbut Yehudit modernit. English. Idea of modern Jewish culture. Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2008 9781934843055 (DLC) 2008015812 (OCoLC)226037152
ISBN	1618110381 (electronic book)
	9781618110381 (electronic book)
	9781934843055
	1934843059

Title The idea of modern Jewish culture / Eliezer Schweid ; translated by Amnon Hadary ; edited by Leonard Levin.

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